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8th Circ. Revives Part Of Legal Tech Worker's OT Dispute
The Eighth Circuit said in a published opinion Monday that the Minnesota federal district court must reexamine whether it has jurisdiction over an employee at legal document review company Consilio's pursuit of statutory damages for unpaid overtime under the Minnesota Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Longtime Wilson Sonsini Litigator Jumps To Baker McKenzie
Baker McKenzie announced Monday that it has added a partner from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, who has previously represented such high-profile clients as Google and Netflix, to enhance the firm's capacity to handle commercial disputes, especially in the technology sector.
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DOJ Antitrust Ace, Whistleblower Joins HSF Kramer
The former deputy assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, who in 2020 said then-Attorney General Bill Barr investigated several cannabis company mergers because he disliked the industry, has joined Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP's team in the nation's capital.
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Moritt Hock Launches Business Divorce Practice
Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP has formed a business divorce practice group to resolve complex disputes between owners of closely held businesses, the New York-based commercial law firm announced Monday.
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Debtors, Mich. Creditor Firm Seek OK On Interest Rate Deal
Debtors and a Michigan creditor law firm asked a Michigan federal judge to approve a settlement agreement valued at about $9 million to resolve claims the law firm charged unlawfully high post-judgment interest rates on debt collection actions.
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Fox Rothschild Rips 'Illogical" Docs Bid In Lit Funding Suit
Fox Rothschild LLP panned as "frivolous" a discovery motion from a married couple suing the law firm over its alleged role in a scheme to push the husband into exorbitant loans during a personal injury case, the firm told a New Jersey state court.
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How Hemenway & Barnes, Raines Feldman Beat Pa. 'Jock Tax'
With decades of experience representing athletes in local tax disputes, Hemenway & Barnes LLP partner Stephen Kidder and his team knew from the jump they had a strong argument to overturn the city of Pittsburgh's "jock tax" on nonresident athletes, but scoring a win would ultimately take a yearslong fight that ended with a unanimous ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week.
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Miami Beats Suit Over Alleged RE Plot Involving Ex-City Atty
A Florida state appeals court reversed the denial of the city of Miami's motion to dismiss a civil conspiracy claim brought against it by a man who accused city workers of conspiring with the former city attorney and her husband to purchase houses with multiple code violations at below-market value and sell them for a profit.
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Jackson Walker, Ex-Insurer Settle Judge Romance Claims
In the latest settlement with Jackson Walker over a former partner's secret romance with an ex-bankruptcy judge, the litigation trustee for defunct life insurance bond settler GWG Holdings Inc. reached a $405,000 deal Friday to settle its claims against the law firm.
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Jones Walker Adds Atty Who Operated Litigation Boutique
Jones Walker LLP has hired an attorney who formerly operated her own litigation boutique to bolster the firm's bankruptcy and restructuring team and its capacity to handle various types of insolvency and commercial matters.
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Newman Opposes Fed. Circ.'s Stay Bid Amid Shutdown
The government shutdown is no excuse to halt proceedings in Judge Pauline Newman's case for reinstatement to the Federal Circuit, the judge said in an opposition, noting in a Friday filing that the Federal Circuit was seeking to delay its own litigation while pledging to deny similar motions that come before it.
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College Prez Loses Emergency Bid In Whistleblower Suit
A New Jersey federal judge has rejected a motion from the president of Rowan College at Burlington County seeking an emergency restraining order to block potential termination, amid a whistleblower lawsuit he brought alleging retaliation after he opposed what he described as unlawful actions taken by the school's board and legal counsel.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Hausfeld LLP's handling of a suit on behalf of the city of Philadelphia and Foley Hoag LLP's work on an $8 billion biotech acquisition lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Sept. 19 to Oct. 3.
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Deceased IP Attys' Names Worth $55K, Conn. Judge Rules
A Connecticut federal judge has declined to upend an expert's valuation amounting to $54,775 in a trademark infringement suit over the names of deceased law partners that appear in the masthead of intellectual property firm Ohlandt Greeley Ruggiero & Perle LLP, determining such a change is unwarranted.
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Offit Kurman Expands To Northern Calif. With Veteran Litigator
Offit Kurman Attorneys At Law has announced that the firm has expanded its California operations to include the San Francisco Bay Area and the state's Central Coast with the hire of a veteran attorney with over 30 years of commercial litigation experience.
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Reed Smith Blasts DQ Attempt As 'Litigation Gamesmanship'
A shareholder of the Venezuelan airline Avior Airlines has urged a Florida federal judge to reject a bid to disqualify his counsel at Reed Smith LLP and attorney Ana R. Ulseth, arguing that the push to disqualify the firm is not about ethics but rather "litigation gamesmanship."
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Former Burford Capital Exec Rejoins Steptoe's IP Team
Steptoe LLP announced the return of one of its intellectual property alumni after she spent about a year and a half underwriting patent investments as a senior vice president of the commercial legal finance firm Burford Capital.
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Cooley Hires Former Treasury Dept. Financial Crimes Leader
Cooley LLP has hired a former Treasury Department official, who was responsible for protecting the U.S. financial system from national security threats, as the leader of its litigation department's national security practice, the firm announced Friday.
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Judge Halts Searches On Phone Seized From Immigration Atty
A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection not to conduct or continue any searches on a phone seized from an immigration lawyer at Logan International Airport last Sunday.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry had another busy week, with more government attorneys moving to private practice, leadership changes and artificial intelligence-related court filing mishaps. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Former Federal Prosecutor Joins Scott + Scott In San Diego
Plaintiffs firm Scott + Scott Attorneys at Law LLP is growing its West Coast team, bringing in a former U.S. Department of Justice trial attorney as a partner in its San Diego office.
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Jackson Walker Can't Duck Judge Romance Suit, Court Told
A group of bondholders Thursday urged a Texas federal judge not to throw out its suit over a former Jackson Walker LLP partner's secret romance with a bankruptcy judge, arguing that the firm "has a problem with telling the truth" and it's "back at it again."
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9th Circ. Says DOL Benefits Board Must Redo Atty Fees
The Ninth Circuit Thursday vacated a U.S. Department of Labor Benefits Review Board decision awarding a National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. worker $145,500 in fees and costs because his injury claims were still disputed when he settled, with a dissent saying apportioning the success of the settlement is impractical.
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Dentons, Boies Schiller Escape $300M Fraud Suit
A New York federal judge has dismissed with prejudice a $300 million fraud and racketeering lawsuit brought against Dentons and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, in which the BigLaw firms were accused of misleading a former client with respect to a deal, and later arbitration, involving Senegal's state-owned energy company.
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Ex-Firm Can't Revive Malicious Prosecution Suit In 11th Circ.
The Eleventh Circuit has refused to overturn lower court rulings nixing a malicious prosecution lawsuit brought by a now-defunct law firm against a surgical center, as well as a sanctions ruling against the firm's counsel.
Expert Analysis
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Making Legal Cents: How To Adapt As Clients Tighten Budgets
Amid a dip in corporate legal spending and client pushback on bills, Shireen Hilal at Maior Consultants highlights specific in-house counsel frustrations and explains how firms can provide customized legal advice with costs that are supported by undeniable value.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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General Counsel And Legal Ops Must Work Together
It is critical for general counsel to ensure that a legal operations leader is viewed not only as a peer, but as a strategic leader for the organization, and there are several actionable ways general counsel can not only become more involved, but help champion legal operations teams and set them up for success, says Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad.
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How Generative AI's Growing Memory Affects Lawyers
A new ChatGPT feature that can remember user information across different conversations has broad implications for attorneys, whose most pressing questions for the AI tool are usually based on specific, and large, datasets, says legal tech adviser Eric Wall.
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A Model For Optimal Legal Tech Investment Strategy
Legal organizations struggling to work out the right technology investment strategy may benefit from using a matrix for legal department efficiency that is based on an understanding of where workloads belong, according to the basic functions and priorities of a corporate legal team, says Sylvain Magdinier at Integreon.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.